Akihabara Maid Cafe Story

A business simulation game where you manage a maid café in Akihabara over 5 years. Starting with just 4 counter seats, you make monthly decisions about advertising, staff recruitment, and cast member development to grow your shop into the district's #1 café. Gameplay involves selecting staff attributes and costumes to match customer preferences, training cast members to improve their customer service and problem-solving skills, and reinvesting profits into shop upgrades and expansions. Features a roguelike progression system where discovered costume combinations and menu items carry over to subsequent playthroughs, with a harder difficulty mode unlocked after achieving #1 status for 15 cumulative months. The game runs in real-time during business hours—you watch as customers arrive, staff take orders, and revenue accumulates—with options to speed up time or skip to month-end results.